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Name / Constellation

NGC 4126

 Other: UGC 7284, PGC 39246

Vir
Coordinates AR: 12h 15m 54.4s, +13° 08′ 58″
Optics Officina Stellare 10" f8 Richtey-Cretien
Camera-Mount PLAYERONE POSEIDON M-PRO - ZWO ASI 1600M (ONAG)- 10Micron GM2000 QCI Mount
Filters Antlia V-Pro LRGB
Exposure
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  • 74 x 300 sec - 6 hours 10min
  • 24 x 300 sec - 2 hours
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  • 20 x 300 sec - 1 hours 40min
  • Binning 3
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Location / Date Promiod (Valle D'Aosta-Italy) "TLP" Remote Observatory -Apr 2024
Seeing 2.4" @ 1.17 arcosec/pixel binning 3
Note Drizzle 2X in postprocessing (Pixinsight))
Acquisition N.I.N.A.
Processing Adobe Photoshop CC -
Comment

 

NGC 4216 is a metal-rich intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo located not far from the center of the Virgo Cluster, about 40 million light-years from Earth.
NGC 4216 is among the largest and brightest spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, with an estimated absolute magnitude of -22 (i.e. it is brighter than the Andromeda Galaxy) and, like most spirals in the cluster, it shows a deficit of gas that is concentrated in its optical disk. For a galaxy of this type it has a low density

In NGC 4216, in addition to a rich system of globular clusters that can be up to five times more populous than those in our galaxy, there are two stellar streams that are interpreted as two satellite galaxies.